The Rock Talks Spy-Hunter

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Dwayne gives a few brief words on the upcoming game-to-film adaptation.

By Jeff Otto

On the set of Be Cool last week, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson talked briefly about his upcoming involvement on Spy-Hunter. Based on the popular videogame from the '80s, the Spy-Hunter series was revived a few years back with a modernized version and a recent sequel. The Rock says that Spy-Hunter is his next project after Be Cool. "I'm in pre-production for a movie called Spy-Hunter. I'm very excited about that. It's going to be with Universal. It's awesome. The script's great."

They are still developing the look of the famous gadget-filled ride. "The Interceptor, it's awesome. And the developers, this is what I'm really excited about with the developers, who developed all the Mission: Impossible, all the Terminator 3, all the effects. What's really cool is, they told me this last week, they were like, 'You can't visualize this in your head, because in our world, it doesn't exist, and we're going to create that.' And it's awesome and they've shown me this cut footage that they have of the car. It's just great."

The Rock promises that the car will be recognizable to fans of the game, but with some even more advanced modifications. "Oh, yeah. But you know what? It's even, it's actually even better than that. Because, to go from the boat to the car to the motorcycle, it actually goes into a three-wheeler first, and then into a two-wheeler when you need it to. So, it's great. Smartly written, really, really good."

The big news last week was the announcement of talks with John Woo as the possible director. "John Woo is in line to direct, which is great, yeah. He's not signed yet, no. So that's just, like, firsthand information I'm giving you guys, as I just found out this afternoon. He would be, he is in the running, I should say. There are other directors too, as well, but he's in the running."

The Rock is obviously a big fan of action movies, particularly of the reality of '70s action. Along with Woo, The Rock has some interesting ideas for another certain big bad Hollywood legend he's itching to work with. "I firmly believe Clint Eastwood could pull off a great action movie, given that type of action from that era that I love. It's just like with Walking Tall, I love that kind of stuff where, if you throw a punch, one punch means something, you know what I'm saying? There aren't explosions just for the sake of explosions. Well, we'll probably get a lot of explosions in Spy-Hunter, so I'll take my foot out of my mouth."